Exhibitions

2019 – Silverdale & Arnside Art & Craft Trail – June 28th to 30th at the Arnside Educational Institute. Throughout the whole of the trail a wide range of art forms, styles and techniques are available for the public to enjoy: – furniture, paper, textiles and upholstery, ceramics, jewellery, wood, metal and glass work, photography in addition to painting and sculpture. The idea was proposed in 2004 by three Silverdale artist friends – Annette Kane, Kate Bentley, and Penny McLeod, who were later joined by others for the inaugural exhibition. They opened their studios, used local venues, made banners from sheets and encouraged villagers and visitors to wander across muddy fields in search of local art.

2015 – Transformations – Space2Create, The Factory, Kendal. Transformations is a collaborative Project between the Space2Create Creative Writing Group which meets weekly under the guidance of Maggie How and local Artists. In the Spring of 2015 the Writing Group completed a collection of writing on the theme of change. This included poems, short texts and even a script. It was decided that this should be turned into a book and thoughts turned to illustration. It was decided to invite artists from The Factory and local artists to take a poem and then create an artwork from it. Many local artists came forward to be part of the project (and some from further afield) very kindly offering up their time and resources for the project.

2013 – An Unofficial Alumni – Redbrook Business Park, Barnsley. After 9 years, 2013 marks the end of degree courses at University Campus Barnsley being run by the University of Huddersfield. An Unofficial Alumni is a showcase of working artists who studied or taught at the campus during these years. These artists have gone on to work in a diverse range on medias, including painting, photography, ceramics, design and installation art.

2013 – Reworked – Experience Barnsley Museum, Barnsley Town Hall. I was commissioned by Experience Barnsley to make a piece of art for their first exhibition Reworked (details below). I created a painting for the exhibition titled This All At Once Is Not Enough.

2013 – The Nichols Building – Eat@TheNichols. My encaustic robots series are on display in their entirety within the cafe area of the building on the first floor known as Eat@TheNichols. The Nichols Building is a vintage, arts & crafts centre that can be found in the Shalesmoor area of Sheffield, S3 8UY.

2013 – Females In Male Eyes – A selection of contemporary male artists that have painted women. Not Now Gallery: online exhibition, click here to view the work. The painting Grab Your Eyes was exhibited.

2012 – Here/There/Everywhere – Hutton’s Buildings, 140-160 West Street, Sheffield. Invited Artist: a pop up exhibition featuring work from artists across the UK. The paintings Transition and We Create Ourselves were exhibited.

2012– Lee Gascoyne, John Ledger & Lisa V Robinson – Darton College, Churchfield Lane, Kexborough, Barnsley. The pieces Golden Age 1, PaintingPainting and Tabletops, Televisions and Aeroplanes were exhibited. We also attended a question and answer session with the students a week after the exhibition opened in the college.

2012 – Prince Charles Visit – University Campus Barnsley. Invited Artist: I was invited to meet HRH Prince Charles during his visit to the university and discuss my painting Observation Without Manipulation.

2011 – 53 Degrees North – The New School House Gallery, York. Selected Artist: the painting Observation Without Manipulation was exhibited.

2011 – Made Fresh – Hive Gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Elsecar. Selected Artist: an incomplete version of the painting Observation Without Manipulation was selected by the curator for exhibition.

2011 – The Aire & Calder Creatives – Bridge Arts Gallery, Sagar Street, Castleford. Invited Artist: in this project I organised a field trip of fellow undergraduates to ultimately use ‘en plein air’ artwork as a starting point for the finished pieces that were exhibited.

2010 – The Free Uni* of Castleford upon Aire – Bridge Arts Gallery, Sagar Street, Castleford. Invited Artist: a collaborative interdisciplinary project of digital prints and paintings between myself and the artist David Jarvis called Change/New/Send. This collaboration also included painting live within the gallery space.

2009 – South Yorkshire Open Art 2009 – Cooper Art Gallery, Church Street, Barnsley. Selected Artist: the painting Golden Age 1 exhibited and I was awarded winner of Emerging Artist of the Year category.